The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18
COLORED PRESS ASSOCIATION.

COLORED PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Politics ana the AmaIgamatiOn OF
Races tIe Chief Topics OF D1scns-
sion.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 1O.-The Ma
tional Colored Press association re-
sumed its session to-day and was called
to order by w. II. Anderson in the aD-
sence of President Simmons. D q
The discussions of the day brought
about a division as to which party the
colored men should support. The first
topic announced for discussion was:
1.-THE relation of the colored men to
the existing political parties" Rev.
Allen Allensworth of Louisville
opened the discussion. He said the
American white man did not under
stand the negro's position. The trou-
bic was that when the negroS asked for
their legal rights the majority of the
people seemed to think that they were
asking for special privileges. Negroes
should, IN a measure, be separate from
the existing parties and teach them
what the colored mans rights should
be. White men and colOred men should
cultivate more friendly relations.
Mr.. Alex. Clark of Chicago, repre-
senting the Baltimore Commercial, said
all men were created free, and should
be entitled to equal rights. He was re-
publican, not drop of democratic blood
was in his veins, but the colored peo-
pie should not fight any party or creed,
but labor to benefit themselves. The
negroes would be a mere CIPHER as an
Independent party. They should ad-
here to the republican party. If they
did not like to do this they should be
ruled out. The republicans were going
to take possession of things again.
They had merely split over Jim Blaine
honesty that divided them and lost
time. The mugwumps can't amount
to much, as they form Il company OF
sorehead reformerS. There never was
a reform party that was not a fraud.
The negro who deserts the republican
party is a traitor to the living and the
dead, and it is a wonder that the ghosts
of the great departed statesmen who
founded the party do not come forth
and confront them.
Mr.. ID. a. Rudd, of the Catholic
Tribune, said the negro owed no I'M
dying allegiance to any party. For ev-
cry service the republicans had done
them, they have done two in return. |
Negroes are not part and parcel of |
them.
Prof. p. II. Murray, of the St. Louis |
said that so long as negroes |
were regarded as the political enemy of |
any party, just that long would they |
have that party to fight and oppose |
their interests. The negro is not in a /
position to dictate to any political par |
ty. He severely criticised the st. Louis |
Democrat, which advocated the I'M
loading of the colOred men into the |
democratic party. Colored men should |
support the party which is best at the |
present time, not one that was best in /
the past. LAS far as Mr.. Blaine is |
said Prof. Murray, she |
seems anxious to read the negroes out /
of the party and fill up the gap with /
Irish votes. Mr.. Sherman went to /
Nashville and made speech, in which |
he tried to coax some eX-cOnfederates |
into the party. He made another at |
in which he wanted to |
read them all out of the party. AS far /
as l am concerned l am tired of the /
negro being a bone of contention be-
tween the two parties, and this should
be read out of politics as an issue"
DR.. Rudd S resolution indOrSing the |
Blair bill was endorsed as was one |
sympathy and greeting to /
Ireland as people ''who like the negro |
have been suffering and struggling !
under the injustice of man to man."
DR.. FitZbutler, of Louisville, chair
man of the committee on resolutions,
submitted the following report which
was adopted:
First, We deplore the conditions that |
make this convention a necessity and |
while it shall be our effort to secure |
equal and common privileges for all |
in places of public in
struction and demanding as we do in
rights from common |
carriers and in places of public accom- |
mediation and entertainment, we have |
no other reason to offer for the meeting |
of the cOlored press association athan re- |
alizatiOn of privileges, pleasures and |
benefits that should be common to |
the country, regardless of nationalities. |
Second, The colored press can now
ostraciSm and the preju- |
diceS existing against the colored man. |
in the dark shadow of American Sla- |
very, as well us sufferers therefrom,
and therefore none are so well qualified
to make appeal against these evils as
the colored man himself, and at the
same time his honest and Intelligent
efforts viii stand as witnesses of his
native ability emitting him to the rights
of citizenship.
Resolved, That we denouEce the acts
of the legislatures of Indiana, Virginia,
Tennessee and other states in making
the intermarriage of the cOlOred race
with other nationalitieS penal otfense,
especially while crimes committed
against colored women by white men
are overlooked as an unfortunate con-
dition, over which law and public senti-
ment have no control.
Resolved, That the act recently
passed-by the Georgia legislature, max
ing it a felony, punishable by fine and
Imprisonment for any person to teach
a colored child in white school, or
vice versa, is the work of unprincipled
and unreasonable men, who are dis
grace to the positions they occupy and
to our common country. Such legiSla-
ton is destructive to the nations
strength in a rebellion or in case of war
with foreign nation.
Resolved, That organization is the
only way to utilize strength, but we
deem it impracticable to attempt a ma
tional organization of colored people to
work politically, but rather favor the
commencement of local organizations
adapted to the peculiar circumstances
of places and people.
Resolved, That werecommend the eS-
tablishment of national bureau of
information to ascertain the extent and
nature of laWlesSneSs and mob violence
against colored men, and adopt means
for the betterment of the present I'M
fortunate state of affairs.
The following officers were elected:
President, j. Simmons of theLouisville
American Baptist; vice president, j. II.
Patton of the Nashville Free Lance; sec
rotary, Rev. Geo. F. Bragg, of Norfolk,
Virginia; American treasurer, Alexan-
der Clark of the Baltimore Common
wealth; historian, w. c. Chase.
The association adjourned, after a
banquet, to meet in Nashville in Au-
guest next year.
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